effect on U.S.-Caribbean relations

In the Roosevelt Corollary (1904) to the Monroe Doctrine the United States assumed “an international police power” in cases where Latin-American insolvency might lead to European intervention. Such “dollar diplomacy” was used to justify—and probably made inevitable—the later “gunboat diplomacy” of U.S. military intervention in Santo Domingo,…

…Latin-American policy, soon called the Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine—because the Monroe Doctrine forbade European use of force in the New World, the United States would itself take whatever action necessary to guarantee that Latin-American states gave no cause for such European intervention. It was, in fact, a considerable…

establishment by Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt added the Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine in 1904, which stated that, in cases of flagrant and chronic wrongdoing by a Latin American country, the United States could intervene in that country’s internal affairs. Roosevelt’s assertion of hemispheric police power was designed to preclude violation of…

…that became known as the Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine (see primary source document: Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine). It stated that the United States would not only bar outside intervention in Latin American affairs but would also police the area and guarantee that countries there met their international…